146 THE CARNATION FAMILT. 



12. Water Mouse-ear — {Cerdstium aqudticum.) 



Moist ditch-banks and swampy places, rare. Between Chorlton 

 and Jackson's Boat (1858) ; in a little ravine in Bredbury Wood; and 

 between Worsley and Astley. (J. E.) Fl. July. 

 Curtis, i. 3.4 ; E. B. viii. 538. 



13. Common Mouse-ear — (^Cerdstium vidgntum.) 



Waste places. Pretty general in all that part of Cheshire which 

 lies between the Mersey and the limits of the Manchester Flora. 

 Plentiful between Bowdon and Bostherne. Fl. summer. Annual, 

 Curtis, i. 107 ; E. B. xi. 789. 



14. Sticky Mouse-ear — [Cerdstium viscosum.) 

 Waste and cultivated groirnd, very common. FL summer. Annual. 



Curtis, i. 108; E. B. xi. 790. 



15. Least Mouse-ear — {Cerdstium semidecdndrum.) 

 Dry, poor, open situations, not uncommon. Kersal Moor. Fl. 

 spring. Annual. 



Curtis, i. 106 ; E. B. xxiii. 1030. 



16. Field Mouse-ear — [Cerdstittm arvcnse.) 

 Fields and dry gravelly places, rare. Railway slopes near Roch- 

 dale. (J. P.) Wharton Hall, Little Hulton, plentiful. (G. H.) Fl. 

 summer months. 



Curtis, ii. 393 ; E. B. ii. 93. 



17. Mcench's Flower — [Moenchia erecta.) 

 In the lane between Worsley and Boothstown, abundant. (J. E.) 

 Fl. May, June. Annual. 



Curtis, i. 84 (as Sagina erecta) ; E. B. ix. 009 ; Baxter, vi. 400. 

 The flowers, liiie those of mauy other of the smaller plants of this family, open 

 only in sunshine. 



18. Common Pearl-weed — (Sagina procrkmbens.) 

 At the bottom of shaded walls ; in poor and grassy pastures ; on 

 garden paths, where it is often a troublesome weed, &c. ; common 

 everywhere. Fl. all summer. Annual ; sometimes perennial. 

 Curtis, i. 157; E. B. xiii. 880; Baxter, iii. 199. 

 The calyx spreads out flat when the capsule is ripe, and holds it like n cup in 

 a saucer. 



